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See, that just proves that you're not lying about your age here! Flying cars and a base on the moon were those things back in the 60s that we all expected to have by now.

I went to the last Automat in New York a long time ago. Hit one up in Amsterdam, too. They're OK.

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We expected to have a developed base on the moon a decade ago.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

/guitar lick Space 1999!

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May the devil be the judge

Buzz Aldrin has been very critical about the fact that we haven't, yet.

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Well there's not that much to do in space other than have satellites orbiting Earth. I mean what can you do on the Moon, research the sand and gravity tests to prove Newton was right? Going into space doesn't have economic functions, except in the very far future when we can harvest minerals or even build a dyson sphere.

If we run out of space from population, we can move into the Sahara desert first. It's more habitable.

I don't have a one anywhere near me, nor would I go to one if they did. Thus I cannot answer your question.

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Pretty sure there are some mining opportunities on the Moon. It's just not economically feasible to get the goods back to earth...

Right, and until we have that technology (which will probably be automated drones), no point in being there. The energy cost alone of going to the Moon is enormous, so just from that it would take a long time for mining to be worthwhile, if in fact there's anything valuable there.

Not if we had our flying cars. See? It all boils down to flying cars. Then we could just fly to the moon George-style.

Oh, and I'd rather live on the F-ing moon than in Africa.

There are some manufacturing benefits to low- and zero-g environments, but that's a good ways away before thats gonna happen.

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Women are from Hoboken, men are from Trenton. ~ Jimmy Kimmel

It's a hassle regardless because there's always some moron in front of you with a hell of a lot more than 10 items who can't figure out how the damn thing works.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I used to be a cashier at a grocery store, and I was the fastest one there (okay, second fastest...). I had no problem using the checkout lanes as a cashier, even the express lanes that didn't have much room to work. However, all of the self-checkout lanes are crap. It takes me a long time to checkout, even though I know what I'm doing. The scanner doesn't work very well, the baggage area sucks, and as Kate said, the system screams at you if you try to remove a bag early.

I remember seeing a commercial about a decade ago about future technology, and one of the images they evoked was an automated grocery checkout. Basically you had a shopping cart full of items, and you ran it through a full size scanner that would (I assume) read the RFID tags of each grocery item. Now that would be efficient. What we have now is rather crap.

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I hate this part the most.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

As a cashier in the past myself, I agree. The self checkout lane scanners are complete ****. I could do multiple carts on my old scanner in the time it takes me to do 8 items on the self checkout.

Now that sounds like a plan.

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Also I believe the main advantage of a moon base is a staging point for deeper missions.

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Exactly. /wink /wink /nudge /nudge Say no more.

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Holy shitsnacks!